Tillmans, Wolfgang

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Born in Remscheid, Germany in 1968

Lives and works in Berlin

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

1988

  • “Approaches”. Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany.
  • “Approaches”. Fabrik—Foto—Forum, Hamburg, Germany; Municipal Library, Remscheid, Germany.

1989

  • Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany.

1991

  • Grauwert Galerie, Hamburg, Germany.

1992

  • “Diptychen, 1990–1992, PPS”. Galerie F. C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany.

1993

  • Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
  • L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt.

1994

  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
  • Fehlmann AG, Schoeftland, Switzerland.
  • Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Colonia, Germany
  • Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.

1995

  • Interim Art, London.
  • Kunsthalle Zurich.*
  • neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
  • Portikus, Frankfurt.*
  • Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
  • Stills Gallery, Edimburgo.

1996

  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
  • arsFutura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • “Faltenwürfe”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Colonia, Germany.
  • “For When I’m Weak I’m Strong”, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany.*
  • Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhague, Denmark.
  • Kunstverein Elsterpark, Leipzig, Germany.

1997

  • Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome.
  • “hale-Bopp”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Art Cologne, Colonia, Germany.
  • “I Didn’t Inhale”, Chisenhale Gallery, London.

1998

  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
  • Café Gnosa, Hamburgo, Germany.
  • Le Case d’Arte di Pasquale Lecese, Milan, Italy.
  • “Fruiciones”, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Espacio Uno, Madrid.*

1999

  • “Eins ist sicher: Es kommt immer ganz anders als man denkt”, Städtische Galerie, Remscheid, Germany
  • Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome.
  • neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
  • Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
  • “Saros”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Colonia, Germany.
  • “Soldiers—The Nineties”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Nueva York; arsFutura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany.
  • “Space between Two Buildings/Soldiers—The Nineties”, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London.
  • Wako Works of Art, Tokio.*

2000

  • “Blushes”, Fig–1, London.
  • Galerie Meyer Kainer (with Jochen Klein), Viena.
  • Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (with Thomas Ruff), Munich, Germany.

2001

  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
  • “Science Fiction” (with Isa Genzken), Museum Ludwig, Colonia, Germany.*
  • “Super Collider”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Colonia, Germany.
  • “View from Above/Aufsicht”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebœk, Dinamarca.*
  • Wako Works of Art, Tokio.*

2002

  • “Lights (Body)”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
  • “Lights (Body)”, Galeria S.A.L.E.S, Rome.
  • “Partnerschaften II” (with Jochen Klein), Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin.*
  • Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
  • “Veduta dall’ alto”, Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy.*
  • “Vue d’en Haut”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.*
  • “Wolfgang Tillmans: Still Life”, The Fogg Art Gallery, Busch Reisinger Museum, Harvard; Cambridge, Mass, USA.*

2003

  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
  • Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
  • Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Colonia, Germany.
  • “If one thing matters, everything matters”, Tate Britain, London.*
  • “View From Above”, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebœk, Denmark.*

2004

  • “Wolfgang Tillmans: Freischwimmer”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokio.*
  • neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
  • Panoramabar, Berlin (Permanent Installation)
  • Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
  • “Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances”, 21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
  • Wako Works of Art, Tokio.*

2005

  • “2005”, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.
  • “Markt”, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin.
  • “Press to Exit” Project Space, Skopje, FYROM.
  • Truth Study Center, Maureen Paley, London.

2006

  • “Freedom From The Known”, PS1, New York.*
  • “Wolfgang Tillmans”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ILL, USA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington.*
  • Pinakothek der Moderne (Permanent collection), Munich.

2007

  • “Wolfgang Tillmans”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
  • “Faltung”, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria.
  • “Bali”, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany.
  • Beugung Kunstverein Munich, Munich.
  • “paper drop”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
  • “All The Time”, Glleria s.a.l.e.s. Rome.

2008

  • Maureen Paley, London.
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
  • Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin.
  • Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.

2010

  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
  • Serpentine Gallery, London
  • Wolfgang Tillmans. Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool, United Kingdom.
2011
  • “Grandes Formatos”. Exhibition with Franz West: “Furniture” included in the 40 aniversary program of the Juana de Aizpuru gallery. Madrid.
  • “Wolfgang Tillmans”. Regent Projects. Los Angeles, California
  • Zacheta, Warsaw

2012

  • São Paulo Museum of Modern Art. Brazil
  • “The common guild in Glasgow”. Dentro del Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. United Kingdom.
  • „Neue Welt“. Kunsthalle Zurich. Switzerland
  • Museo del Banco de la República. Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Moderna Museet Stocolmo.
  • “Onion and Headlights“. Works from the Arts Council Collection. Glasgow

2013

  • K21, Düsseldorf.
  • Museo de Arte de Lima, Perú.
  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
  • NEUE WELT. Rencontre de Arles, Arles, France
  • Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), Santiago, Chile
  • Central Nervous System. Maureen Paley, London
  • Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
  • Silver. Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

2015

  • Dům Umění – House of Art. Budweis. Czech Republic
  • Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg

2016

  • On the verge of visibility. Serralves, Porto
  • Playback RoomLenbachhaus. München. Comisario de la exposición.
  • Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
  • Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
  • Maureen Paley. London
  • Regen Projects, LA

2017

  • TATE. London

2018

  • IFA world tour. Kinshasa, DR Congo: Musée d´Art Contemporain et Multimédias Kinshasa. Nairobi. Johannesburg
  • 5th anniversary. Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
  • David Zwirner. Hong Kong
  • Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Sarah Glennie
  • “FRAGILE”. Circle Art Gallery und GoDown Arts Centre Nairobi, Kenya; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
  • “Qu’est ce qui est différent?” Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes

2019

  • Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam
  • Wiels, Brussels
  • Wolfgang Tillmans, galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
  • Fragile, IfA-Tourneeausstellung, Contemporary Art Gallery, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

2020

  • Wolfgang Tillmans, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1989

  • “Die Hamburg Schachtel”, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany.*

1991

  • “Icons of a Mutinous Age: Three Photographers”, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth, England.

1992

  • “i-D Now, Pitti Image”, Palazzo Corsini, Florence, Italy.
  • “tomorrow people”, Imagination Gallery, London.
  • “We Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet”, Galerie F. C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany.

1993

  • “Atelier” (in collaboration with Isa Genzken), Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany; Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany.
  • “Belcher, Höller, General Idea, Tillmans, Odenbach”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
  • “Christmasshop”, Air de Paris, Paris.
  • “Fuck the System”, Villa Rossi, Lucca, Italy.
  • “June, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
  • “November Television”, Videoprojekt Remscheid, Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
  • “Phenylovethylamour”, Unfair 1993, Cologne, Germany, Stand of the Galerie Daniel Buchholz.
  • “Tresorraume”, Unfair 1993, Cologne, Germany.

1994

  • “100 Umkleidekabinen”, Bad zur Sonne, Graz, Austria.*
  • “Ars Lux, 100 artist billboard light boxes across Italy.
  • “Expose Yourself”, The Tannery, London.
  • “Les Dimanches de l’amour”, École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France.
  • “Dinos and Jake Chapman, Georgina Starr, Wolfgang Tillmans”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
  • “L’Hiver de l’amour”, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris.*
  • “Homegrown”, Lotus Club, Cologne, Germany.
  • “Mechanical Reproduction”, AP, Ámsterdam.*
  • “Photo ’94 ”, The Photographer’s Gallery on Art 94, London.
  • “Rien à signaler”, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland.*
  • “Soggetto Soggetto”, Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italia.*
  • “Sonne München”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
  • “Streetstylev”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.*
  • “The Winter of Love”, PS1, New York.
1995
  • “ars viva 95/96 Photographie”, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau, Dessau, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany.*
  • “Benefit Exhibition for D.E.A.F., Inc.”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, organized by Jeff Koons.
  • “Bildermonde—Modebilder: Deutche Modephotographien von 1945–1995”, Institute fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany.*
  • “The Enthusiast”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.
  • “Every Time I See You”, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Malmö, Sweden; Galleri Index, Stockholm; Galerie Analix B&L Polla, Geneva.
  • “Guaranteed Personalities”, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm.
  • “Human Nature”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
  • “Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen”, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
  • “Mondo Nova”, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy.*
  • “Photographies”, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels.
  • “Take Me (I’m Yours)”, Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany.*
  • “White Columns”, New York, Auction Benefit.

1996

  • “a/drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture”, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
  • “Blind Spot: Photography—The First Four Years”, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York.
  • “By Night”, La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.*
  • “Das deutsche Auge—33 Photographen und ihre Reportagen”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
  • “Dites-le avec des fleurs”, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.
  • “Everything that’s Interesting is New”, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens; Art Academy, Athens; Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen.
  • “Festival International de la Photo de Mode”, Biarritz, France.
  • “Glockengeschrei nach Deutz”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.*
  • “I Feel Explosion, flat above” Manchester Arndale Centre, Manchester, UK
  • “Intermission, Basilico Fine Arts, New York.
  • “New Photography #12”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • “Nudo y Crudo: Sensitive Body, Visible Body”, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.*
  • “Pictures of Modern Life”, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France.
  • “Le Plaisir et les ombres”, Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels.
  • “Prospect ’96—Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst”, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn
  • Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.*
  • “The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life”, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Shift, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.*
  • “Traffic”, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France.
  • “Urgence”, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France.*
  • “Visitors’ Voices: Recomposing the Collection”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis wunderbar, Kunstraum Wein, Vienna; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany.

1997

  • “The 90s: A Family of Man? ”, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg.*
  • “Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.*
  • “Kunst . . . Arbeit”, Forum der Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany.*
  • “Die Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast in Bonn”, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany.*
  • “Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland von 1945–1995”, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.*
  • “Projects”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublín.*
  • “Reality”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.
  • “Sous le Manteau”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.*
  • “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”, Cubitt, London.
  • “Zeitgeist Becomes Form: German Fashion Photography 1945–1995”, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; Morris Healy Gallery, New York.

1998

  • “Berlin/Berlin”, Berlin Biennale.
  • “Collection: Un autre regard”, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France.
  • “The DG Bank Collection”, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio.*
  • “Edifying Sappho and Socrates”, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney.
  • “Fashion at the Beach”, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, USA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA.*
  • “Fast Forward Image”, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany.*
  • “From the Corner of the Eye”, Stedelijk Museum, Ámsterdam.*
  • Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
  • Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris.
  • “Look at Me”, Kunsthal Rotterdam; The British Council Touring Exhibition.
  • “Photo Op”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass, USA.
  • “Portrait: Human Figure”, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich.
  • “The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Collier Schorr”, Apex Art, New York.
  • “La Sphère de l’intime, Le Printemps de Cahors Festival”, Saint-Cloud, France.
  • “Still Life: 1900–1998” Marlborough Graphics, Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
  • “Stretch, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm.*
  • “Sunday by Matthew Higgs”, Cabinet Gallery, London.
  • “The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life”, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA.
  • “Veronica’s Revenge”, Lambert Collection, Geneva, Switzerland; Centre d’art
  • Contemporain, Paris; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.*

1999

  • “Can You Hear Me?”, 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany; Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
  • “Flashes: Contemporary Trends”, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris; Centro Cultural de Belèm, Lisbon; Fondacion Miró, Barcelona; Centro Arte
  • Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy.*
  • “The Garden of Eros”, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona.
  • “How Will We Behave?”, Robert Prime, London.
  • “Hypertronix”, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain.*
  • “The Image of the Other”, Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona, Spain.*
  • “In Your Face”, New Langton Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • “. . . on the sublime”, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden.
  • “der siebte himmel”, Christuskirche Köln, Cologne, Germany.
  • “Views from the Edge of the World”, Marlborough Chelsea, New York.
  • “Vision of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset”, Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.*
  • “Wohin kein Auge reicht—Von der Entdeckung des Unsichtbaren”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
  • “Word Enough to Save a Life, Word Enough to Take a Life”, Clare College Mission Church, London.
  • “Zoom”, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2000

  • “90 60 90”, Museo Jacobo Borges, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut, Caracas, Venezuela.*
  • “All Dressed Up”, Apex Art, New York.
  • “Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art”, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
  • “The arsFutura Show”, arsFutura, Zurich.
  • “Arts & Facts”, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
  • “AutoWerke—Europäische und amerikanische Fotografie 1998–2000”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany.*
  • “The British Art Show 5”, organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, for The Arts Council of England; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK; John Hasard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK; Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK; Fotogallery, Cardiff, UK; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
  • “Collection Première Heure”, Groupe Premiere Heure, Saint-Cloud, France.
  • “Collector’s Choice”, Exit Art, New York
  • “Complicity”, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
  • “Conversione di Saulo”, Palazzo Odescalchi, Rome.
  • “Deep Distance: Die Entfernung der Fotografie”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.*
  • Dire AIDS: Art in the Age of Aids, Promotrice delle Bella Arte, Turin, Italy.*
  • “German Photoworks”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
  • “ ‘high five’ im warmen Monat Mai”, Galerie Schedler, Zurich
  • “Some Parts of this World”, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki.*
  • “Landscape, organized by The British Council, London; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sofia Municipal Gallery of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, Russia; Central House of Artists, Moscow; ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany.*
  • “Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain, 1960 to the present”, The British Council, Madrid; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; Fondazion Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy; Marina Alla Scala Art Centre, Milan, Italy; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Mali Manezh, Moscow; State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia; Tallinna Kunstihoone Fond, Tallin, Estonia; Øksnehallen, Copenhagen; Museu de Documantatio I Museu Textill, Terrasa, Spain; Recinto Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain; Palacio de Abrantes, Salamanca, Spain; House of Art, Bratislava, Slovakia.*
  • “Lost”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.*
  • “Eine Munition unter anderen”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.*
  • “The Oldest Possible Memory”, Collection Hauser and Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  • “Platforma”, sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv
  • “Photography Now”, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA.
  • “Présumés innocents”, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France.
  • “Protest and Survive”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
  • “Quotidiana: The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art”, Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin.*
  • “The Sea & the Sky”, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, USA.*
  • “Les Trahisons du modéle, corps et attitudes II”, Stéfane Ackermann agence d’art contemporain, Luxembourg.
  • “Turner Prize 2000”, Tate Britain, London.
  • “Vanishing Points”, Groupe Première Heure, Saint-Cloud, France.

2001

  • “Abbild: Recent Portraiture and Depiction”, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
  • “AC: Isa Genzken / Wolfgang Tillmans”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
  • The Beauty of Intimacy: Lens and Paper”, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria.
  • “Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis”, Tate Modern, London.
  • “Club Club Club”, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France.
  • “Contemporary Utopia”, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia.*
  • “Freestyle, Werke Aus Der Sammlung Boros, Das Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany.
  • “Brave new world”, OMR, Mexico City.
  • “Museum unserer Wünsche”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  • “La natura della natura morta”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy.*
  • “Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.*
  • “Open City: Street Photographs, 1950–2000”, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; The Lowry, Manchester, UK; Museo de Belles Artes de Bilbao, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
  • “Places in the Mind: Modern Photographs from the Collection”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
  • “Portrait”, Lindig in Paludetto, Turin, Italy; Zeitgenossische Kunst Milchof, Nuremberg, Germany Record Collection, VTO gallery, London; International 3, Manchester Gallery, Manchester, UK; Forde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland .
  • “Some German Photography”, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
  • “Some Options in Abstraction”, Harvard University Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MS, USA.
  • “Sex—Vom Wissen und Wünschen”, Hygienemuseum, Dresden, Germany.*
  • “Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
  • “Tattoo Show”, Modern Art Inc., London.
  • “Uniforms, Order and Disorder”, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.*
  • “Why bother?” The Burger King Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
  • “Zero Gravity, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.*

2002

  • “Beyond Barbizon”, Elias Fine Art, Allston, MA.
  • “From the Observatory”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  • “HOSSA—Arte Alemàn del 2000”, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
  • “International Contemporary Art”, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
  • “In the Making”, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA.
  • “Jochen Klein (1967–1997) und Wolfgang Tillmans”, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin.
  • “Museum Unserer Wünsche”, The museum of our wishes, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany.
  • “Painted, Printed and Produced in Great Britain”, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
  • “Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop”, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
  • “Sensationen des Alltags”, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany.*
  • “Transform the World 2002”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.

2003

  • “20th Anniversary Show”, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany.
  • “Abstraction in Photography”, Von Lintel Gallery, New York.
  • “actionbutton, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
  • “After the Observatory”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
  • “Anniversary Exhibition”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.
  • “Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit”, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.*
  • “Attack—Kunst und Krieg im Zeitalter der Medien”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.*
  • “Auto-nom”, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • “Berlin/Moskau”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.*
  • “Dubrow International”, Roger Smith Gallery, New York.
  • “Fast Forward”, Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.*
  • “Here and There”, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia.
  • “Looking In—Looking Out”, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • “M_ARS—Kunst und Krieg”, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.*
  • “Montagna: Arte, acienza, mito”, Museo d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy.
  • “Mixtapes”, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA.*
  • “My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (But Now They’re Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs) ”, Team Gallery, New York.
  • “outlook”, cultural olympiade, Athens.*
  • “öffentlich/privat”, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany.
  • “Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.*
  • “Saint Sebastian, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.*
  • “Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles.
  • “Society for Contemporary Art Selection”, The Art Institute of Chicago, ILL, USA.
  • “Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art”, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. USA.
  • “Von Korpern und anderen Dingen: Deutsche Fotografie im 20 Jahrhundert”, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.
  • “Warum! ”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2004

  • “Atmosphere”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • “BISS—Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit”, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.*
  • “Colección Taschen”, MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
  • “Encounters in the 21st Century”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
  • “Enthüllt”, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, Germany.*
  • “The Flower as Image”, Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebœk, Denmark; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland.*
  • “Friedrich Christian Flick Collection”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.*
  • “Im Rausch der Dinge”, Fotomuseum Schweiz, Winterthur, Germany.
  • “Landscape 2”, Tower Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
  • “Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists”, California College of Arts, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA.; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA.; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, USA.*
  • “Monument to Now”, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens.*
  • “Il Nudo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy.
  • “Rose C’est la Vie”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.
  • “Werke aus der Sammlung Boros”, Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.*

2005

  • “Always a Little Further, 51st International Art Exhibition”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
  • “German Contemporary Photography”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
  • “Coolhunters”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • “Covering the Real”, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • “Extreme Abstraction”, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
  • “Growing Up Absurd”, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK.
  • “Helga de Alvear Collection”, MEIAC Museum, Badajoz, Spain.
  • “Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany.*
  • “Shadowplay—An Homage to H. C. Andersen”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria.*
  • “Superstar”, Das Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst, Kunsthalle und Kunstforum, Vienna.*
  • “Il Teatro dell’Arte”, Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy.
  • “Thank you for the Music”, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany.
  • “Weltbilder”, Helmhaus, Zurich.*

2006

  • “Abstract art now – floating forms”, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
  • “An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery”, Paula Cooper, New York.
  • “As if by Magic”, The Bethlehem Peace Centre, Palestine.
  • “Click Double Click”, Haus Der Kunst, Munich; Bozar Expo, Brussels.
  • “Das Achte Feld—Geschlecter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.*
  • “Deckchair dreams”, London’s Royal Parks, London.
  • “Faster! Bigger! Better!”, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Germany.
  • “Frankfurter Positionen: Klasse Wolfgang Tillmans”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.
  • Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures, New York, USA
  • “Good Vibrations – Visual arts and Rock music”, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy.*
  • “How Queer Everything is Today”, Queer Festival, Råhuset, Halmtorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • “In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century”, Barbican Art Gallery, London.
  • “It’s not a photo”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York.
  • “Landscapes”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
  • “Peace Camp”, The Brick Lane Gallery, London.
  • “Surprise Surprise”, Institue of Contemporary Arts, London.
  • “Thank you for the music (London Beat) ”, Sprüth Magers Lee, London.
  • “The Gold Standard”, P.S.1, New York.
  • “The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe”, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK.
  • “The Studio”, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin.
  • “The Sublime is Now!”, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
  • “Toutes Compositions Florales”, Counter Gallery, London.
  • “Y Ahora Sin Ti…”, Galería Juana De Aizpuru, Madrid.

2007

  • “The Secret Public: The last days of the British underground 1978 – 1988”, Kunstverein München, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
  • “At Home”, Yvon Lambert, New York.
  • “Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art”, The Jewish Museum, New York.
  • “Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection”, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
  • “Hava Boºluðu” – Air Pocket, Galerist, Istanbul.
  • “Into Me / Out of Me”, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
  • “Numerica, Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy.*
  • “Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany”, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA.
  • “Seeing Things”, Dorsky gallery, Long Island City, USA.
  • “The Droste Effect”, Esther Schipper, Berlin.
  • “The Turner Prize: A Retrospective”, Tate Britain, London.
  • “The Naked Portrait”, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK.
  • “What Does the Jellyfish Want”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
  • “Cuestión Generacional”, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

2008

  • “Atemporalidad. Colección Pecar”. Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Spain.

2009

  • “Holbein to Tillmans” Schaulager, Basel, Suiza
● “phot(o)bjects“, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
● “A Twilight Art“, curated by Lisa Oppenheim and Jessie Washburne Harris,HarrisLieberman, New York, NY, USA
● “Photography in the Abstract“, curated by Maureen Mahony, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX USA
● “Tel Aviv Time“, curated by Nili Goren, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • “Bijoux de famille“, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
● “En todas partes. Politicas LGBTQ en el arte“, Centro Galego de arte contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
● “Incidental Affairs“, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
● “Form and Photo“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
● “60 Jahre – 60 Werke“. Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1949-2009, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
● “Extended“, Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
● “53rd Venice Biennale“, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Venice, Italy
● “Das Porträt“, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
● “Berlin 89/09“, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
● “The Third Moscow Biennale of contemporary art“, Moscow, Russia
● “Sommercontemporaryart“, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010

  • ARCO’10. Stand galeria Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid
  • “Malas Calles“, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
  • “Zu Tisch“, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
  • FRIEZE. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. London, United Kingdom.

2011

  • VIP ART FAIR. 1st Virtual Fair.
  • ARCO’11. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. Madrid, Spain
  • “Die Deutsche Show“, Divus Prager Kabarett, Praga
  • “British Art Show 7”, CCA, Glasgow
  • “MMK 1991 – 2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart“, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
  • “Falling Up: The Gravity of Art“, The Courtault Gallery, London
  • “Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation“, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
  • “Dance your Life“, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • FRIEZE. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. London, United Kingdom.

2012

  • ”Print/Out”. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY,
  • “BOY: A CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT“: LEO XU PROJECTS. China
  • “The Sports Show,” Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  • ARCO’12. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. Madrid
  • Wols- Ausstellung, Museum Weserburg, Bremen
  • ART BASEL. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. Basel
  • Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University of Wellington. New Zeland
  • MD 72. Berlin
  • “Freischwimmer: The World of Contemporaray Photography” National Museum of Art Osaka. Japon
  • Art Gallery of South Australia

2013

  • Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault Kunstmuseum Basel,
  • New York, New York 1993. New Museum, ,
  • Vue d’en haut. Centre Pompidou Metz,
  • Dear Portrait. MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales
  • „Hay más rutas que la nuestra. Las colecciones de Tamayo después de la modernidad“. Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo. México

2014

  • ZONA MACO. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. México

2015

  • “No ver, no oir y callar“. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. Sevilla
  • ”Animal Photographers”, ACUD Projektraum. Berlin
  • Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

2016

  • Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brasil.
  • Mit anderen Augen – Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie. Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • ICH. Neue Formen des Selbstporträts. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

2017

  • Disappearance at Sea. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Gateshead. Reino Unido.
  • Freiheit, die ich meine … MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen. Germany
  • The Force of Photography”. Museion. Bozen
  • Moving is in every direction”. Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
  • Jardin infini. De Giverny à l’Amazonie”.Centre Pompidou Metz
  • “Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection”. The Museum of Modern Art. Nueva York
  • “Utopia/Dystopia Part II”. MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. Lisboa
  • “The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest”. The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw
  • “You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred”. Zabludowicz Collection. London
  • “Assorted Paper”. Sunday Painter. Leo Fitzmaurice, Eva Hesse, Bob Law, Jonathan Monk, Beatriz Olabarrieta, Amalia Pica, Mira Schendel, Samara Scott, Wolfgang Tillmans
  • “The Absent Museum”. Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain. Brussels
  • Gestures of Resistance”. Romantso Cultural Center. Athens
  • “The Collective”. Workspace Gallery. Gateshead
  • “Space Force Construction”. Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice
  • “Faraway Focus. PHOTOGRAPHERS GO TRAVELLING (1880–2015)”. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

2018

  • “The Collective”. Workspace Gallery. Gateshead
  • ICA at Art Basel Hong Kong and Hong Kong Film Fest
  • “On Paper – Arts Council Touring Exhibition”. UK
  • “David Zwirner: 25 years”. David Zwirner, New York
  • “In Part – Writings by Julie Ault”. Galerie Buchholz, New York
  • “ZEIGEN. An Audio Tour through the collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka – by Karin Sander“. Curated by Yuka Uematsu. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  • National Gallery. Trafalgar Square, London
  • “Basel Short Stories – von Erasmus bis Iris von Roten”. Kunstmuseum Basel
  • “What Is Different? Wolfgang Tillmans in conversation with Sean O’Hagan”. ica, London
  • ”That Obscure Object of Desire”. Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel Galeria, Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro
  • “Fashion Drive – Extreme Mode in der Kunst”. Kunsthaus Zürich
  • ”LICHTEMPFINDLICH 2 – Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Schaufler” . Schauwerk Sindelfingen
  • #myMuseum. 175 Years Staatsgalerie
  • “The Great Spectacle”. The Royal Academy, London
  • “One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art” The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
  • La pintura. El reto permanente. Caixaforum. Madrid

2019

  • La pintura: el reto permanente. Colección ”la Caixa”, Barcelona. Spain
  • Los cinco elementos de la Naturaleza. Espacio artkunstarte. Madrid
  • Ekstase, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
  • If I was a rich girl, Kunst Raum Riehen
  • Europa Endlos, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
  • Stereotypen – Werke aus der Grafischen Sammlung des Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • not yet titled, Baby Company, Fire Island, New York
  • So wie wir sind 1.0, Weserburg – Museum für Moderne Kunst , Bremen
  • Hyper! A Journey into Art and Music, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • Fuck Your Fear, Van Horn, Düsseldorf
  • The way we are 1.0, Weserburg – Museum für Moderne Kunst,
  • No Photos on the Dance Floor! Berlin 1989 – Today, C/O Berlin, Germany,
  • Street. Life. Photography. Seven Decades of Street Photography, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria,
  • Never Again: Art Against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland,
  • Selbstbildnis, Société, Berlin, Germany.

2020

• Today is The First Day WIELS, Brussels, Belgium

• Isa Genzkenund Wolfgang Tillmans, KAT A, Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf.

• How does it feel? WAKO Works of Art, Tokyo

Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

 

2021

•Panoramas, galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

Fragile. Museum for Science and Technology Barnes, Accra, Ghana

 2022

Wolfgang Tillmans “Sonic is Liquid”, Mumok, Vienna, Austria